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Arjo Adams said he came out one morning and someone had put up the doll's head in the "People's Park" and that a girl came out with two young kids and painted the pig stool.
Arjo Adams' house and "People's Park" -- the next-door folk-art sculpture garden have been condemned. The city-owned lot next to his home has been transferred to St. Paul Parks and Recreation, which plans to use the lot as a buffer to a bike path and the East Side Heritage Park. (Pioneer Press: Jean Pieri)

Standing in the "People's Park" Arjo Adams thinks about the people he knew who were displaced from this area in the Payne-Phalen Main Street redevelopment project in the 1990s.

Arjo Adams looks at the picnic table that someone painted in the "People's Park." "It's good," he said. "If you provide art tools people will do almost anything," he said. "This just happened."

Arjo Adams said his favorite totem at his St. Paul home and "People's Park" was the horse. "You can't kill a horse," he said. "If it doesn't have food it will eat bark to survive. If it doesn't have water it will chew snow. As long as a horse has its freedom you can't kill it."

Arjo Adams grows raspberries at his St. Paul home and "People's Park" and says that people can pick them.

Arjo Adams takes what he calls a "short cut" to get up to his home from the "People's Park"

Arjo Adams at his St. Paul home and "People's Park"
Arjo Adams' house and "People's Park" -- the next-door folk-art sculpture garden have been condemned. The city-owned lot next to his home has been transferred to St. Paul Parks and Recreation, which plans to use the lot as a buffer to a bike path and the East Side Heritage Park.

There is a bottle from the old Gillette Building (future home of the St. Paul Saints stadium) in Arjo Adams "People's Park" Friday, July 19, 2013. ""I like baseball. It's my contribution to the Saints."

Arjo Adams looks at what he calls "his inventory," and tries to figure out what to build with it at his home and the "People's Park".

Arjo Adams sees for the first time a wolf sculpture made of bone that was put on a rock wall ledge at "People's Park." "People put stuff in the rock ledges -- for luck, I guess," he said. "There's hundreds of them. I think it's cool."

Arjo Adams walks into his St. Paul home Friday July 19, 2013 which has been condemned.